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As it turned out there was more talk about soggy bottoms than keels and cabins. world poker tour chips The Great British Bake Off was a favourite topic among the presentations and 2011 winner Jo Wheatley was among the guest speakers at the event organised by the UK wing of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA).
Naturally enough, cupcakes featured among the day's refreshments alongside generous bowls of Scouse and pickled world poker tour chips beetroot - appropriately enough as delegates were gathered within sight of Liverpool's Pier Head and the iconic Royal Liver Building.
They heard, as if they did not already know, that the number of cruise passengers has grown by 8% a year since 2000 - double the rate of travel as a whole. River cruising is expanding even faster world poker tour chips - up 14% last year.
One of countless surveys world poker tour chips commissioned by sellers discovered that 62% of the country has said it is not interested in cruise. That still leaves 17.5 million who would be interested - 10 times as many people who do take a cruise each year.
In a world where most efforts are concentrated on selling cruise to a new audience and attracting younger customers, Fred Olsen's sales and marketing director Nathan Philpot rocked his audience by urging them to aggressively target the grey market, the over-55s, over-65s and over-75s.
Christine Duffy, CLIA's overall president world poker tour chips and CEO, flew in from Miami to assure us that "challenges" posed by the Costa Concordia tragedy and other shipboard mishaps were being met head on to maintain customer confidence.
But back to the big topic of the day. I've got another suggestion for the cruise lines, and especially for Royal Caribbean's Jo Rzymowska, who will soon be taking the reins at Celebrity's UK operation.
If she follows up the Bake Off talk by signing up its stars to take a series of cruises she would fill every one in moments. What's world poker tour chips more, the steely-eyed Paul Hollywood and the ever-youthful 78-year-old Mary Berry would ensure that there would never be any soggy bottom moments at sea.
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